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One day after Orlando. Release the sanctimonious hounds.

It is most likely that police and other authorities hadn’t cleared the Pulse nightclub of the remaining 40-something bodies before the two presumptive presidential nominees were clearly “making hay while the sun shined.”

Donald Trump, the likely GOP nominee, reiterated his call for excluding Muslims from entering the United States. Meanwhile, his counterpart Hillary rolled on an old familiar theme — gun control — while digging into a glimpse of her strategy to combat our terrorist foes such as ISIL.

Somehow the death toll from the early Sunday-morning shooting spree and hostage crisis in the Orlando gay club fell from 50 to 49. I have yet to hear how that happened, although it matters to history and in the hearts and minds of those who lost loved ones.

Both President Obama and Hillary Clinton talked on the increasing need for an assault weapon ban, a proposition that prompts the presumptive GOP presidential nominee to cackle Henny-Pennie-like that such measures will lead to the end of the Second Amendment to the Constitution. That is utter horse pucky. But the lies Trump is floating around seemingly know no boundaries.  Trump is even insinuating that Obama either  is incompetent or he is somehow involved. Perhaps Trump is re-living his glory days, when Trump was convinced the President was from the Muslim World. Yes, Barry Obama, Secret Asian Man, or African, or Hawaiian, I mean, it’s all the same to The Donald.

The president has been beaten up by the Republicans for not using the words “Radical Islamic terrorists.”

“Is President Obama going to finally mention the words radical Islamic terrorism?” Trump tweeted as the president was speaking. “If he doesn’t he should immediately resign in disgrace.”

WTF? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! I mean I have seen some silly politicians with equally ludicrous ideas, but I mean this whole thing over Obama not calling the terrorists with the “radical Islamic” prelude. That right there sums up the silliness of the Republicans and that silly son-of-a-bitch  Donald Trump.

Politicians like Trump, Clinton and that idiot-assed Lt. Governor of Texas Dan Patrick all are  to blame for starting up the Circus, well, starting it up even more. I know that politicians in general, but Republicans specifically, have well-honed hypocrisy to a calling. People like Patrick saying on Twitter the gays brought this violence on themselves, then he states he had meant that Bible quote for several days prior.

So on this day, when so many parents and siblings are grieving for their losses while other pray for other relatives to pull through from horrible injuries, we are left with the sanctimonious perhaps Muslims shooting it out with gays as sort of a win-win.

Let the pious be pious. Just leave me the f**k alone if you are plan to side with the Donald Trumps and the Dan Patricks of the world.

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“We’re building a wall — we’re building a wall!”

That ol’ Donal’ TRUMP! That’s how the good ol’ boys pronounce Donald Trump. They leave off the last “d” in his first name and YELL, when they say Trump.

What do you want to bet a lot of them ol’ good ol’ boys have enjoyed how Trump has been dumping on that “Mes-can” judge?

At least these folks aren’t wallowing in their hypocrisy like the GOP elite have done all day.

“Yes, Donald Trump is definitely talking like a racist. But I will still vote for him.” You can assign such talk to practically every Republican poo-bahs today.

Donald Trump has talked non-stop for a week about that judge, who we think is a Mexican but that’s okay (But there’s nothing wrong with that, as was repeated in the hilarious Seinfeld episode titled “The Outing.”) You can read the entire script here.

Now Trump says the whole subject was “misconstrued.” What does that mean? He missed the con screwed? Oh well.

This f**k-wad has done nothing other than talking all week about his civil lawsuit over Trump U., where he was allegedly screwing students (or maybe some cons, but cons don’t let other cons screw cons.) Or not.

“He’s Mexican. We’re building a wall!” “He’s Mexican. We’re building a wall.”

Build this asshole!

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Say hello to Con Man Trump

This morning I watched about 10 minutes of the Donald Trump press conference before I, fortunately, had to go by my office. I wished I hadn’t watched that much of what was a sorry spectacle.

I am both a semi-retired journalist and a military veteran. Trump had called the press conference, saying that he would release the name of the veterans groups and how much he had laid out in donations. Those donation stemmed from an “event” that he held during the Republican primaries after Trump ran scared from a candidate debate. He ran from Megyn Kelly of Fox News who was a moderator in a debate after a past Kelly-moderated debate in which The Donald said Kelly treated him unfairly.

Trump launched into an attack on the media before releasing details of donations he had supposedly released to veterans organizations. All along during that event and for months after he talked about how he raised $6 million for veterans who he professes to “love.” News organizations digging into what had been given vets found the amounts were much less that the $6 million. Trump’s campaign manager said last week that they only raised about $3.5 million. Trump said today it was $5.6 million but the boastful businessman said the task was something no one else could do.

He also, as I found out later, continued his press-conference invective against reporters as well, the federal judge whom Trump said was “Mexican” and he claimed he was unfair in the lawsuits against Trump University.

Trump has usually insulted reporters at his campaign events, calling them “dishonest” among other names. He once made fun of a disabled reporter from The New York Times by mimicking the arm jerks of the journalist. What he did differently today was that he insulted individual reporters, calling one a “sleazy guy.”

The presumptive GOP nominee was livid over the press scrutinizing his event and the financial details. He said that he just wanted to a little praise for his good works. That is also in contradiction to his saying he didn’t want any credit.

The problem with his thinking is that the media isn’t about laudatory remarks, at least not many political reporters.

I have never been around any U.S. presidents with the exception of George W. Bush. As I have said here before, I interviewed him when he was a private citizen campaigning for his father. I covered a number of press conferences when Bush was Texas governor. Likewise, I attended probably a handful of his visits to Crawford and Fort Hood. This included going to an Easter Sunday church service inside a military chapel where I was only one of five reporters allowed to attend.Over time, it seemed like the guy I used to jokingly call him G.W. had become more thin-skinned. Perhaps, though, he had always been repelled by criticism. I don’t know anyone who likes to be criticized. I know I don’t like it.

But Trump has brought his thin skin to an art form. It is beyond thin skin. He is a class-A whiner. Every little slight sets him off. His press flacks say it is just his counter-puncher. If he gets attacked, he will attack back.

Besides, being incredibly childish Trump is showing the voting public a glimpse of what he might look like as a president. I think that is good. I sure as hell won’t vote for him and if elected, I don’t know. I probably won’t leave the country since my only health care option at the moment is the Department of Veterans Affairs. Trump wants to dismantle that department and make veterans have health care vouchers. I definitely have my problems with the VA. But if there was a president and Congress that would act like real leaders I think most of the problems could be fixed.

Trump is scary. He thinks that is good. He likes having others off kilter. But that isn’t how you lead the most powerful country in the world. I don’t want the press being restricted. Trump would do that. I don’t want my health care being screwed with. Most of all, I don’t want a con man as president.

To put it in Trump’s terms, I’m talking about con man Trump.

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News of today. Oh well, just read please!

A couple of points from today’s news.

First, happenings at Jerusalem on the Brazos a.k.a. Baylor University. The sacrificial lamb for the idiotic cover up of sexual assault cases involving Baylor football players was none other than Head Coach Art Briles. The hand-slap, not-surprisingly, went to Ken Starr. The former special prosecutor of Bill and Hillary Clintons’ alleged sins was demoted from his post as Baylor president but will retain his chancellor title as well as remaining as a professor at Baylor Law School. There were other specified and non-specified Baylor officials whose jobs were ended. Clearly, s**t rolls downhill at Baylor University. Who knows whether the Waco Police Department, accused of holding back police reports, will be investigated by outside law enforcement? The department has already drawn fire for its handling of the so-called in the “shoot-out” at the Twin Peaks corral.

Smiling Ken Starr. Who's smiling now? Not Art Briles. U.S. Government photo
Smiling Ken Starr. Who’s smiling now? Not Art Briles. U.S. Government photo

I don’t know either Starr or Briles. I know sports writers who covered Briles as a high school and college coach. He always seemed to be a good guy. Biles is no doubt a coaching wizard. He took one of the sorriest teams in the Big 12 Conference — perhaps in what was the NCAA Division 1 — and turned it into a national championship contender. Sometimes people get themselves in a bad situation and use bad judgment and, sometimes, they pay the price.

As a column I read today, Starr is sleazebag who made it his duty to bring down the Clinton presidency. Sure, Clinton lied about his “affair” but how many men and women wouldn’t lie if it was their marriage was on the rocks? But Bill Clinton was the president. Yeah, that’s the GOP line. That is until they face the same situation.

Finally, Donald Trump. Jeez. He officially became the presumed Republican candidate for President today. I didn’t believe he would get through the early primaries. But he did. I wouldn’t be surprised if he is somehow waylaid at the Republican National Convention still.  After today and the last month, nothing surprises me.

I have been and am even more ticked off at Bernie Sanders. I don’t know why he continues in his arrogant thinking he will be president, or whatever the hell he is doing. I thought if Trump became the front-runner, that he would cause an immediate collapse of  the Grand Old Party. Maybe it is a slow collapse. I now am unsure if the Democratic Party is going to hold together.

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All I want …

With all the so-called anti-Trump protesters wreaking their havoc, one thinks those rioters might just help Donald Trump getting elected. Perhaps many are anarchists. I just don’t know what people want. I know I don’t want Trump to be president. Jeez Louise!